 | | BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 11 January 2009 | |
Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 11 January
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
Actress and author Sarah Miles joins Aled Jones to talk about her career and faith.
A star of stage and screen, Sarah is perhaps best known for her role in Ryan's Daughter – for which she won a Bafta and an Academy Award Nomination.
Sarah is currently starring in Lisa Kron's autobiographical play, Well, which opened to critical acclaim on Broadway in 2006 and has now transferred to London's West End. Sarah has also written her own one-woman show, three critically acclaimed volumes of memoirs and a novel, Beautiful Mourning. Presenter/Aled Jones, Producers/Hilary Robinson and
Ged Gray
BBC Radio 2 Publicity Johnnie Walker
Sunday 11 January
4.30-6.30pm BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
This week's show features a live session from The Mercurymen. Band members Jinder, Simon Johnson and Gavin Wyatt met recording a three-part harmony as session artists and quickly realised they worked as a trio. The broad mix of influences on their music includes the melodic harmonies of Crosby, Stills & Nash, the pop sensibility of early Bee Gees and the nu-folk territory inhabited by the likes of Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver. Jinder elaborates: "My family on my mother's side are Native Americans by origin and so there's a lot of Americana about my life. But I grew up in Warwickshire and I heard a lot of English folk music. Every summer I could open my bedroom window and hear the Cropredy Festival happening in a field literally half a mile away, which really broadened our horizons." By contrast, Gavin and Simon came to the band after an apprenticeship with pop producer Mickie Most. Their debut album, Postcards From Valonia, is released in February. Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa-Correa
BBC Radio 2 Publicity Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 11 January
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
Brian D'Arcy explores the idea of Holy ground and the value of sacred spaces. This week's featured choir is The Fairhaven Singers, directed by Ralph Woodward. The organist is Christopher Whitto and hymns include City Of God, Blessed City, Heavenly Salem and We Love The Place Of God. Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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Private Passions – Kate O'Mara
Sunday 11 January
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
Michael Berkeley's guest today is actress Kate O'Mara, well known for her glamorous roles in Eighties TV series such as Howard's Way and Dynasty. She has recently returned to the stage as Marlene Dietrich in Lunch With Marlene, and as Mrs Cheveley in the Peter Hall and Bill Kenright production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Her musical passions range from Baroque music by Bach and Zelenka through pastoral scenes by Dvorak and George Butterworth to Shostakovich's Jazz Suite and Edith Piaf singing Milord. Presenter/Michael Berkeley
BBC Radio 3 Publicity Discovering Music – Unlocking By Fung Lam
Sunday 11 January
5.00-6.30pm BBC RADIO 3 | | |
Charles Hazlewood is joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Chinese composer Fung Lam to explore Fung's new work, Unlocking. Through conversation and diary entries which Fung recorded during the compositional process, the composer traces how this work was written from its conception through to the final version of the piece. Fung was commisioned by the BBC to write a piece for Discovering Music, the first of a series of three works specially commissioned from contemporary composers. Taking inspiration from the exhibition of padlocks at the Victoria And Albert Museum, Fung's piece explores themes of codes, secrets and locks. The programme also includes a feature looking at an education project which composer and animateur Fraser Trainer has been running alongside the composition of Fung's new piece. Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Sam Phillips
BBC Radio 3 Publicity Sunday Feature – Inside The Art Schools
Sunday 11 January
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
Michael Bracewell immerses himself in the febrile atmosphere of three of the country's art schools – Central St Martin's, Coventry School of Art and Design and Goldsmith's College. He casts an eye over the work of a new generation of fine-art students. He discovers installations based on the plight of the honey bee and esoteric collages debating the nature of celebrity and how the challenging work created in art schools reflects the impact of wider culture. Bracewell also encounters one of Goldsmith's most high-profile alumni, Damien Hirst, who reflects on his own student days. Hirst tells Bracewell how the teaching philosophy at Goldsmith's crystallised his artistic ambitions. Now the young British Artists aren't so young any more, Bracewell meets their successors and discovers the sources of their inspiration. Presenter/Michael Bracewell, Producer/Paula McGinley
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Desert Island Discs
Sunday 11 January
11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
 Author and poet Ruth Padel Kirsty Young's guest is writer and poet Ruth Padel, the great, great grand-daughter of Charles Darwin. The award-winning poet travelled extensively through remote forests and jungles between 2001 and 2004, in various countries, including India, Bangladesh, Nepal, China and Laos. As well as poetry, Ruth also writes non-fiction and her interests include poetry, music, travel and nature. Growing up, she learned to play chamber music and her family has a rich history of being either musicians or physicians. She has been resident poet at the Henry Wood Promenades and has sung in the Schola Cantorum Oxford, in Philippe Caillard's choir in Paris, in the church choir of St Eustache in Les Halles and also in the first Cretan performance of Handel's Messiah, in Greek, by the Heraklion Town Choir. For several years she lived in Greece and has helped excavate Minoan roads and tombs in Crete. She has taught various subjects at universities around the world, including both modern and ancient Greek at Cambridge and Oxford. Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
BBC Radio 4 Publicity A View Through A Lens Ep 1/5
Sunday 11 January
2.45-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | |  |
Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison combines location recordings with personal narratives in a series of programmes highlighting the uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the fragility of life and the connections which unite society and nature across the globe. The first programme looks at grey seals. It is autumn and John finds himself in a raging storm on a tiny island. The island is Brownsman, part of the Farnes islands, off the coast of Northumberland. Seals give birth at night and so, with huge waves pounding against the rocks, John goes in search of the mothers and pups in pitch darkness, with only the rhythmic pulse of the Longstone Lighthouse to guide him. Presenter/John Aitchison, Producer/Sarah Blunt
BBC Radio 4 Publicity Poetry Please Ep 1/9
Sunday 11 January
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
Roger McGough introduces a new series of Poetry Please, presenting the poems requested by listeners, read by some of the country's finest actors. Lia Williams reads the poems for the first programme which include works from Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Brian Patten, William Blake, Matthew Arnold and, two of her own favourite poems by Harold Pinter. The programme also includes recordings of Michael Williams reading Cecil Day Lewis's The Album and Felix Dennis reading some of his own work. Presenter/Roger McGough, Producer/Beth O'Dea
BBC Radio 4 Publicity Schumpeter Rising
Sunday 11 January
10.45-11.00pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
Hedge-fund manager Hugh Hendry argues that, in the present crisis, it is the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter and not his British rival, Keynes, that the world should be heeding. Famous for the term "creative destruction", the larger-than-life, duel-fighting, womanising Schumpeter believed that innovators rather than government were essential to economic recovery.
Presenter/Hugh Hendry, Producer/Glynn Jones
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 11 January
12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE | | | |  |
Eleanor Oldroyd presents an afternoon of live sport, with commentary of the Barclays Premier League clash between Wigan and Tottenham Hotspur, live, from the JJB Stadium at 1.30pm. There is also coverage of the day's rugby union Guinness Premiership matches, including Newcastle v Gloucester. From 4pm, there's live commentary from the top of the Premier League, as Manchester United take on Chelsea at Old Trafford. Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Graham McMillan
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